Multiply - Jamie Lidell
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84 out of 100

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7.4 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 58 Ratings

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  • Summary: One half of the electronica outfit Super_Collider, producer Jamie Lidell returns with a second solo album that finds him in an unlikely new role: that of a soul singer.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 22 out of 24
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 24
  3. Negative: 0 out of 24
  1. Tiny Mix Tapes
    100
    This is a major step forward in pushing the IDM aesthetic into the bigger territory of soul and R&B music.
  2. Dusted Magazine
    100
    A silky, bright, singing-in-the-shower masterstroke of joy and elation.
  3. New Musical Express (NME)
    80
    His skill rests in the realisation that you can't airbrush soul: so, instead of smoothing rough edges, these cuts of cyborg funk fidget with digital tics and gasps. [11 Jun 2005, p.67]
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  4. PopMatters
    60
    More than a patchy but occasionally brilliant album, Multiply is the whisper that the greatest soul music, rather than being trapped in our memories of times gone by, may yet play free in days to come.

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  1. Positive: 27 out of 27
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 27
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  1. PaulThegiraffe
    10
    funky as f. Well jackson
  2. MattyM
    10
    Unreal, Jamie is the white De Angelo, Justin Timberlake and Robin Thick ain't got nothin' on this cat...he's bad..........intelligent too........I'm a fan :)… Collapse
  3. RDSmith
    10
    Great fusion of soul and electronica. I knew this was good way back when I heard the whole album in May.
  4. MichaelO
    6
    After the great reviews, I really tried with this but it left me pretty cold. Surprisingly bland.

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